LONDON — Volunteers from five countries staffed the Pathfinder booth at the first London Book Fair in three years April 5-7. Their goal was to expand the distribution of books that present the lessons of decades of revolutionary working-class struggle,…
MANCHESTER, England — “We are proud, many thought this wasn’t achievable but we stuck together to the end,” strike leader Gary Walker told the Militant April 27 as workers at the Trafford Park warehouse here celebrated their victory over CHEP,…
A one-day nationwide strike in Sri Lanka April 28 demanded that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign. The strike comes amid weeks of protests in this island nation over rising inflation, power outages and shortages of food and fuel. “Costs are increasing…
Weeks of rising anger toward government officials in response to severe COVID restrictions and accompanying food shortages spurred protests in Shanghai at the end of April. Dozens of residents in Jinze, a Shanghai suburb, marched through the streets demanding food.…
FRESNO, Calif. — Farmer Will Scott invited Socialist Workers Party candidates Ellie García and Joel Britton to his farm here April 5 to discuss how small farmers are affected by sharply rising prices, Moscow’s war in Ukraine and what workers…
LOS ANGELES — The constant stream of workers, students and other youth visiting the Pathfinder booth at the L.A. Times Festival of Books here April 23-24 were seeking an explanation for the deepening capitalist economic crisis and its resulting wars.…
RICHMOND, Calif. — On strike since March 21, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, which represents over 500 production and maintenance workers, are picketing 24/7 at the Chevron oil refinery here and winning support. Strikers on the picket line April…
OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 500 members of United Steelworkers Local 5 at the Chevron refinery near here in Richmond have been on strike since March 21. They have been receiving solidarity from area workers and need more. But one…
TORONTO — A tribute was held here April 17 to Reza Baraheni, a leader of the fight for political and artistic freedom in Iran and one of its most prominent poets, novelists and literary critics. Baraheni died in March at…
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Thousands of nurses walked off the job April 25 and began picketing outside both Stanford Hospital and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital here, in a strike over understaffing, work stress, wages, retiree health benefits and access to…
